Players joined the crowd in cheering on Shane Doan, whose bid for the first hat trick of his career in his 1,065th game fell just a bit short. He scored twice in the first period, and in the third, on the last of his five shots for the game, hit the post on a power play.

Doan, who has missed 10 games this season, doubled his goal output to four, and he helped move the Coyotes to a 3-0 lead after one period.

"It's great to see the crowd into it," coach Dave Tippett said. "He had a great game, and that just shows how much admiration there is from the other players toward him, where everybody on the bench is screaming for him, 'Shoot! Shoot!' like the fans.

"He's really picked it up here the last week, 10 days, and we're going to need that going on the road."

Doan has scored twice in the first period several times in a career that began 15 years ago when the franchise was located in Winnipeg. He has been asked the hat trick question hundreds of time, and he still gets a little chuckle out of it. "I would love to get it, but it won't be a story if I got it now," he said. "Keep it going, I guess."

Defenseman Keith Yandle was hoping to become a hat trick prophet.

"I actually told him before the last game that I thought he was going to get one," he said. "He had the chance tonight. He hit a post late; it was tough. It would have been nice."